Independent Parks Party candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 226.
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Michael Robert Caditz, ballot number 226 for Park Board in Vancouver, Independent Parks Party. Profile focus: Forest management and public decision-making.
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This record covers Michael Robert Caditz, leader of the Independent Parks Party and its candidate for Park Board commissioner at ballot number 226. Caditz has a documented public record as an opponent of the Stanley Park tree removal project, including two public petitions and a court case reported by several news outlets.
The score counts how complete and checkable the published plan on this issue is. Whether the plan would work is a separate question, left to the reader. Measured October 3, 2026. The same seven points apply to every candidate for this office.
“We will declare that parks are to remain fully in the public domain, not to be transferred in whole or part to the private sector.”
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VoteMate profile: Michael Robert Caditz“We will declare that parks are to remain fully in the public domain, not to be transferred in whole or part to the private sector.”
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VoteMate profile: Michael Robert Caditz“retain the 50-metre pool”
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VoteMate profile: Michael Robert CaditzNo cost or funding source.
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No dated public action on this issue found.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Independent Parks Party’s platform on parks: 9 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. Vancouver is the only major city in Canada with a separately elected park board. Its seven commissioners control parks, community centres, pools, rinks and beaches.
“As a Vancouver Park Board commissioner, Michael Robert Caditz will seek to depoliticize the Board, bring back ethics to government, listen to what the experts say and what the citizens want.”
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Campaign video, “Michael Robert Caditz for Park Board”“Major decisions affecting parks, beaches, community centres, sports facilities, and other areas within Park Board jurisdiction require meaningful, publicly transparent deliberation and consultation with citizens and experts, including scientists.”
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VoteMate profile: Michael Robert CaditzNo number for what would exist or change.
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No dated public action on this issue found.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
What this office controls. Council, the Park Board and the Board of Education each set their own meeting rules, committees, public consultation and reporting. The Vancouver Charter and the School Act create the three bodies and set their powers, and only the Province can change those acts.
Every Park Board candidate on governance, scored the same way
“Our commissioners will rescind unreasonable parking fee hikes on Park Board jurisdictions including Spanish Banks and Hillcrest Community Centre.”
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VoteMate profile: Michael Robert Caditz“Our commissioners will rescind unreasonable parking fee hikes on Park Board jurisdictions including Spanish Banks and Hillcrest Community Centre.”
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VoteMate profile: Michael Robert Caditz“return to $1/hour”
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2026 Park Board Candidate Survey: Michael Robert Caditz (226), Independent Parks Party“Council should adequately fund parks and recreation from the tax base.”
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2026 Park Board Candidate Survey: Michael Robert Caditz (226), Independent Parks PartyNo date or term milestone.
No dated public action on this issue found.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Independent Parks Party’s platform on taxes and budget: 4 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Park Board sets its own fees and approves its budget request. Council approves the City budget that funds it and the capital plan that pays for park buildings.
Every Park Board candidate on taxes and budget, scored the same way
“We will impose a moratorium on further tree removals (except for imminently hazardous trees) until a complete review of reasons for removals is performed.”
Stated by the candidate.
VoteMate profile: Michael Robert Caditz“We will impose a moratorium on further tree removals (except for imminently hazardous trees) until a complete review of reasons for removals is performed.”
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VoteMate profile: Michael Robert CaditzNo number for what would exist or change.
No cost or funding source.
No date or term milestone.
“Court application to stop the Stanley Park tree removal project”
Refused, October 5, 2024.
Court bid to halt Stanley Park logging fails, but judge criticizes city hall, park boardThe questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Independent Parks Party’s platform on climate: 7 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Park Board manages trees, natural areas and the shoreline inside parks, and its own community centres, pools and rinks. The City’s building bylaw is Council’s.
“We will direct better enforcement, in a non-authoritarian manner, of the existing Park Board bylaws which prohibit vehicles on pedestrian walks and cap speeds on the cycling lanes.”
Stated by the candidate.
Vancouver Civic Election: the parties answer four West End questions“We will direct better enforcement, in a non-authoritarian manner, of the existing Park Board bylaws”
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Vancouver Civic Election: the parties answer four West End questionsNo number for what would exist or change.
No cost or funding source.
No date or term milestone.
No dated public action on this issue found.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Independent Parks Party’s platform on public safety: 1 commitment, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Park Board makes the bylaws and rules for parks and beaches and runs the park rangers. Policing is the Vancouver Police Department’s, and Council approves its budget.
Every Park Board candidate on public safety, scored the same way
“We will implement car-free days in Stanley Park.”
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VoteMate profile: Michael Robert Caditz“We will implement car-free days in Stanley Park.”
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VoteMate profile: Michael Robert CaditzNo number for what would exist or change.
No cost or funding source.
No date or term milestone.
No dated public action on this issue found.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Independent Parks Party’s platform on transport: 2 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Park Board decides the roads, paths and parking inside parks, including Stanley Park Drive. City streets and bike lanes outside parks are Council’s.
Every Park Board candidate on transport, scored the same way
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No upcoming public appearance by Michael Robert Caditz is confirmed in the sources checked on October 3, 2026.
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Michael Robert Caditz appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for Park Board, with ballot number 226. The City records the affiliation as Independent Parks Party.
Elections BC's register of elector organizations, as of October 3, 2026, lists the party under the full name Association for the Promotion of Science in Governance, with the ballot name Vancouver Independent Parks Party, and names Caditz as both its authorized principal official and its financial agent.
The Independent Parks Party was registered in 2026, is led by Caditz, and describes its approach as bottom up governance and good governance. It has no elected members.
The party website names Caditz as its authorized representative and names the Association for the Promotion of Science in Governance, a British Columbia non-profit organization, as its parent organization.
News reporting names Caditz as a lead member of the Stanley Park Preservation Society and as one of the people who brought the society's court applications against the city and the Park Board.
In a bylined article in Watershed Sentinel dated February 1, 2025, Caditz is described as a founding director of the Stanley Park Preservation Society and a long time Vancouver resident with a background in philosophy and sustainable energy management. That description appears in an article Caditz wrote.
Caditz started a Change.org petition on February 8, 2024 asking the Park Board to halt tree removal in Stanley Park. The petition had 23,382 verified signatures when the page was read.
Caditz submitted a platform of 45 promises under his own name to VoteMate, covering parks, trees, fees, outsourcing and Park Board governance. He has since answered the Vancouver Public Space Network's Park Board survey and the Vote4Tomorrow climate voter guide, and The West End Journal printed the party's answers to its questions under his name.
In his Vote4Tomorrow answers, Caditz says he has lived in Yaletown for 15 years, holds a B.A. in philosophy with honours from Vancouver Island University and an M.Sc. in sustainable energy from New York Institute of Technology, and is a director of the Car Free Stanley Park Society. His campaign video describes the same master's degree as an M.Sc. in engineering. voche.me has not confirmed the degrees or the society role with the institutions.
A Supreme Court of Canada case file names Caditz as one of four individual applicants, alongside the Stanley Park Preservation Society, in the judicial review of the tree removal project. The Supreme Court of British Columbia substantially dismissed the judicial review on December 17, 2025. The applicants then asked the Supreme Court of Canada for leave to appeal; the Court dismissed that application, and a related request to pause the project, with costs, on June 25, 2026.
voche.me assembled this profile from the official candidate list, the Elections BC register, court records, news reporting, campaign material linked under Sources, and answers Caditz gave under his own name to VoteMate, the Vancouver Public Space Network and Vote4Tomorrow. The campaign has not been contacted directly by voche.me.
Published positions and selected commitments, separated by election cycle. Status labels describe the evidence reviewed, not a numerical score or a complete audit of the platform. Council approval is different from delivery.
44 commitments shown · Checked Oct 3
We will declare that parks are to remain fully in the public domain, not to be transferred in whole or part to the private sector.
We will work to change the status of all temporary parks to permanent parks which are less vulnerable to being sold off.
We will freeze all work on the Vancouver Aquatic Centre renovation until a thorough analysis of possible methods to retain the 50-metre pool is undertaken.
We will reject any new commercial developments in Stanley Park or other parks which encroach on forest, reduce green space, or degrade park visitor experience.
We will immediately address underfunding, lack of attention, and resulting disrepair of the David Lam Park playground and convene a panel of experts to solve the problem of excessive downtime due to lengthy seasonal grass reseeding.
We will rescind the Park Board's authorization for the land use agreements allowing BC Hydro to build a substation at Nelson Park and formally request that the British Columbia Utilities Commission deny the permit for the substation.
We will impose a moratorium on further tree removals (except for imminently hazardous trees) until a complete review of reasons for removals is performed.
We will establish the Green Canopy Office, to which we will appoint non-political experts to advise us.
We will ban the use of glyphosate and other environmentally hazardous herbicides and pesticides from Park Board jurisdictions and initiate a scientific inquiry into alternative methods of managing invasive species.
Our commissioners will halt replanting farmed, selectively bred trees in Stanley Park until a thorough scientific inquiry is conducted to assess the consequences.
We will reject additional artifical turf and initiate an investigation of how existing artificial turf sports fields can be removed and replaced with natural grass.
He will fight for our green spaces and tree canopy, and to ensure that public resources remain public and affordable to all.
We will implement car-free days in Stanley Park.
We will enforce automobile speed limits, reinstate a protected active transportation and recreation lane along Stanley Park Drive, and undertake a full transportation safety review of other parks.
Our commissioners will rescind unreasonable parking fee hikes on Park Board jurisdictions including Spanish Banks and Hillcrest Community Centre.
We will support local farmers and promote public health by eliminating parking fees at farmers markets on Park Board jurisdictions, including Riley Park.
We will repeal the recent procurement policy changes where the Park Board gave away its oversight to City bureaucrats.
We will rescind the neoliberal "Think Big" revenue generating program, which has resulted in inappropriate commercialization of our parks and unfair hikes in parking and user fees.
As a Vancouver Park Board commissioner, Michael Robert Caditz will seek to depoliticize the Board, bring back ethics to government, listen to what the experts say and what the citizens want.
Major decisions affecting parks, beaches, community centres, sports facilities, and other areas within Park Board jurisdiction require meaningful, publicly transparent deliberation and consultation with citizens and experts, including scientists.
We will convene a monthly citizen-driven town hall to hear and meaningfully engage with citizens’ concerns, with adequate notice and speaking time.
Prohibit further logging in Stanley Park and declare that only individual trees determined to be imminently dangerous using provincially certified methods can be removed.
We will conduct a full review of the Burrard View Park food forest and fire pit with consideration for local neighbourhood needs.
We will establish the Green Canopy Office, a panel of experts from which City staff will be required to receive permission before removing trees.
“Think Big” commercialization will be halted. Council should adequately fund parks and recreation from the tax base.
Citizens should not be bombarded with advertising or blocked by closures for private events when accessing their parks.
Asked whether he plans to abolish or reform the Park Board, he answered with an unequivocal no and said elected commissioners set policy for parks while City staff carry it out.
We will not allow any entity, including but not limited to MST Development Corporation, to develop, damage, or commercialize parks.
We will rescind the recent parking fee increase at Spanish Banks, return to $1/hour.
Farmers markets are excellent venue for connection and community. We will simplify the permit process.
We will extend the hours of VanDusen Botanical Garden and reduce parking fees for the Festival of Lights.
We will extend the hours of VanDusen Botanical Garden and reduce parking fees for the Festival of Lights.
We will assess the condition of Trout Lake facilities and water and accelerate needed maintenance and water cleanup.
We will order a review of the condition and safety of playgrounds and sports courts throughout the city.
Tree removals by City employees will require a permit from the Park Board.
He will repeal and replace the tree inspection policy which, he says, lets City employees cut down trees without proper inspections.
We will not sell naming rights to private corporations.
We will declare weekly car-free days in Stanley Park as a possible step towards a full-time car free park.
No land in Park Board jurisdictions will be sold or leased for a data centre.
We will direct better enforcement, in a non-authoritarian manner, of the existing Park Board bylaws which prohibit vehicles on pedestrian walks and cap speeds on the cycling lanes.
The party would have the Park Board study how the proposed hotel at 2030 Barclay would affect Stanley Park and report its findings and recommendations to Council and the public.
The party platform says its commissioners will remove restrictions and private use at Kitsilano Pool, overhaul the booking system so the pool is used at its full past capacity, and hold a town hall before any renovation or replacement.
The party platform says it will put a hold on the Britannia Pool renovation while the Vancouver Aquatic Centre is closed.
The party platform says its commissioners will move to prohibit excessive late-night noise near Jericho Beach and other parks.
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Caditz started a public petition calling on the Vancouver Park Board to stop removing native coastal western hemlock trees and replacing them with Douglas fir, cedar and red alder. The petition says the city did not provide credible scientific evidence for its safety claims, says standing dead trees are habitat rather than the fire hazard claimed, and says there is a conflict of interest because the contractor doing the work also did the assessment.
The petition had 23,382 verified signatures when the page was read. A petition is a public demand and carries no legal effect.
Justice Maegen Giltrow of the B.C. Supreme Court refused to grant an injunction stopping the $18 million project. The judge found a negligence claim was the wrong legal route. The judge also said the petitioners raised credible and legitimate questions about a process that ran behind closed doors for more than a year, and noted the city's own lawyer called the identity of the decision maker unclear.
theBreaker.news names Caditz among the people who brought the application. After the ruling Caditz said the group was waiting to see what the Park Board would do before deciding how to proceed.
Caditz started a public petition asking Green Party Park Board commissioner Tom Digby to resign. The petition says more than 7,000 trees were cut in the winter of 2023 to 2024, says Digby claimed defoliated conifers were a wildfire and falling risk without enough scientific support, and says Digby set aside testimony from scientists at Park Board meetings on October 7 and 8, 2024.
The petition had 931 verified signatures against a goal of 1,000 when the page was read. Digby remained a commissioner and is a candidate in the 2026 election at ballot number 222.
The Stanley Park Preservation Society filed a petition asking the court to rule that the Park Board and city council went beyond their authority and to cancel contracts with B.A. Blackwell and Associates Ltd. The society also asked for an order allowing only the removal of trees assessed one by one as an immediate danger to the public.
The city's position is that hemlock looper moths killed about 160,000 trees and that removal is needed to stop falling trees and reduce wildfire fuel, at a cost of $18 million. The society says the assessment method was wrong and that machine logging breaks up the forest floor, reduces canopy and damages roots. Vancity Lookout later named Caditz as the society member who filed this judicial review.
Caditz told Vancity Lookout that the society had adjourned its case until after the Park Board's July 21, 2025 meeting and would now file updated court materials alleging procedural errors at that meeting, and that the hearing was expected to be scheduled within two months.
Caditz also said the city had agreed that tree removal would not resume until after a court decision. The Supreme Court of British Columbia ruled on the judicial review on December 17, 2025; see the later entries in this record for the result.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia substantially dismissed the petition for judicial review that Caditz and three others brought with the Stanley Park Preservation Society, but ruled that the applicants are entitled to a declaration that the City of Vancouver entered into the agreement with the contractor for the first-phase tree removal work without jurisdiction.
The Supreme Court of Canada's case file names Michael Robert Caditz as one of four individual applicants, alongside the Stanley Park Preservation Society. The other three applicants are not candidates and are not named here. The applicants appealed to the Court of Appeal for British Columbia. Vancouver Is Awesome and theBreaker.news reported the ruling on December 18 and 19, 2025 and quoted Caditz on it.
After the Court of Appeal for British Columbia twice refused to pause the tree removal project while an appeal was pending, the applicants sought leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Court dismissed the application for leave to appeal, and a related motion for a stay or interlocutory injunction, with costs against the applicants.
The Supreme Court of Canada closed its case file on June 29, 2026.
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After the injunction was refused, Caditz told theBreaker.news the group was waiting to see what the Park Board would do before deciding how to proceed.
In Watershed Sentinel, Caditz argued against the plan, quoting a Diamond Head Consulting report that a detailed tree by tree assessment is needed to identify and manage hazardous trees, and criticized the stated goal of removing hemlocks and replanting other species.
Caditz told Vancity Lookout the society would file updated court materials alleging procedural errors at the July 21, 2025 Park Board meeting, expected a hearing within two months, and said the city had agreed not to resume tree removal until a court decision was issued.
Caditz told The Canadian Press that he and the other plaintiffs disagreed with the ruling, were looking at other legal options, and believed the tree removal rested on bad science and should be stopped.
Writing for the Stanley Park Preservation Society, Caditz said 11,016 trees had been removed since fall 2023, argued that the contractor's risk assessment used the wrong fire model and carried a conflict of interest, and said the Park Board approved the contracts without asking for a second opinion.
Caditz said the December 17, 2025 ruling was a partial win that would make the City more careful in future, and said the judge did not deal with the plaintiffs' argument that commissioners knew the contractor had a conflict of interest.
Caditz said the group was deciding whether to appeal, and said it was unreasonable for commissioners to approve the contracts without a peer review of the contractor's findings.
On his own Instagram account, Caditz described an afternoon at Trout Lake talking with park users. The post says the Independent Parks Party would start a scientific review of the lake's water cleanup and set up a panel of the public and experts to list delayed repairs, including the washrooms and the dog park.
Caditz answered all ten questions. He would stop logging in Stanley Park except for trees found to be in immediate danger of falling, cancel the Board's approval of the Nelson Park substation, require Green Canopy Office permission before staff remove trees, end Think Big commercialization, hold monthly town halls, keep the Park Board, return Spanish Banks parking to $1 an hour, and end parking fees at farmers markets.
The West End Journal printed the Independent Parks Party's answers to its four questions under Caditz's name. The party says the Board should study how the proposed 2030 Barclay hotel would affect Stanley Park, staff should halt the Aquatic Centre rebuild until a 50 metre pool is back in the plan, its commissioners would move to cancel the Board's approval of the Nelson Park substation, and park bylaws against vehicles on walking paths should be enforced.
Caditz marked himself supportive of all 17 climate measures the guide lists. In his written answers he said the Park Board would declare weekly car-free days in Stanley Park, would not sell or lease park land for a data centre, and should keep park and community centre access low in cost. He said the City's Sustainability Office is outside the Park Board's power.
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Caditz was one of the people who brought the Stanley Park Preservation Society's application to stop the city's Stanley Park tree removal project. Justice Maegen Giltrow refused the injunction in a written decision dated October 1, 2024, finding a negligence claim was the wrong legal route. The judge did say the petitioners raised credible and legitimate questions about the process.
Caditz told The Canadian Press the plaintiffs disagreed with the ruling and were looking at other legal options, and told theBreaker.news the group was waiting to see what the Park Board would do before deciding how to proceed. The society then filed a judicial review, reported on February 10, 2025.
The injunction was refused on October 1, 2024. The judicial review that followed was substantially dismissed by the Supreme Court of British Columbia on December 17, 2025. See the entry on that ruling.
Caditz started a public petition asking Green Party Park Board commissioner Tom Digby to resign over the Stanley Park tree removal decisions. Caditz and Digby are now both candidates for Park Board in the same election, at ballot numbers 226 and 222.
No published reply from Digby to the petition was found. In July 2025 Digby said there is ecological value in dead trees left standing and on the ground, and said no other commissioner wanted a public discussion of the forestry plan.
The petition had 931 verified signatures against a goal of 1,000 when the page was read. Digby did not resign and is a candidate in the October 17, 2026 election.
Caditz was one of four individual applicants, alongside the Stanley Park Preservation Society, in a judicial review asking the courts to rule that the City of Vancouver and the Park Board exceeded their authority in approving the Stanley Park tree removal project. The Supreme Court of British Columbia substantially dismissed the petition on December 17, 2025, though it declared that the City entered into one contractor agreement without jurisdiction.
The applicants appealed and asked the Court of Appeal for British Columbia to pause the project pending the appeal. A single judge refused the pause on January 9, 2026, and a three-judge panel refused to vary that refusal on February 13, 2026. The applicants then sought leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. After the December 17, 2025 ruling, Caditz told Vancouver Is Awesome it was a partial win, and told theBreaker.news the group was deciding whether to appeal.
The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed the application for leave to appeal and a related motion for a stay, with costs against the applicants, on June 25, 2026. The court file closed on June 29, 2026. No published response from Caditz to this outcome was found.
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Bob Mackin reported that Justice Maegen Giltrow refused the injunction while criticizing more than a year of closed door decision making, and named Caditz among those bringing the application.
Bob Mackin reported the society's B.C. Supreme Court petition, what it asks for, and the city's account of hemlock looper damage and the $18 million cost.
Reported the Park Board's approval of the final phase and named Caditz as a lead member of the society, with comments on the state of the judicial review.
Listed all 35 Park Board candidates in ballot order, with Caditz at number 226 for the Independent Parks Party.
Reported the refused injunction, named Caditz among the four park users who filed the case, and quoted him on the ruling.
Stefan Labbé reported the December 17, 2025 ruling, which found the City needed Park Board approval for the first tree removal contract and upheld the later Board decisions, and quoted Caditz as one of the plaintiffs.
Bob Mackin reported the same ruling, named Caditz among the society's members in the case, and quoted him on a possible appeal.
Printed the answers of eight parties to four West End questions, with the Independent Parks Party's answers under Caditz's name.
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
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Change.org · February 8, 2024
Change.org · November 4, 2024
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Independent Parks Party · August 7, 2026
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Michael Robert Caditz · September 20, 2026
CityHallWatch · December 11, 2025
Daily Hive · September 22, 2026
theBreaker.news · October 5, 2024
theBreaker.news · February 10, 2025
Vancity Lookout · July 23, 2025
Watershed Sentinel · February 1, 2025
The West End Journal · October 1, 2026
CBC News (The Canadian Press) · October 3, 2024
Vancouver Is Awesome · December 18, 2025
theBreaker.news · December 19, 2025
Vancouver Public Space Network · September 26, 2026
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Vote4Tomorrow (Doctors for Planetary Health, West Coast)
Mount Pleasant Community Centre Association
The West End Journal · October 1, 2026
The LinkedIn profile given in the candidate list returns HTTP 999 to automated requests and was never read, so the degrees, career and the Car Free Stanley Park Society role that Caditz states about himself remain unconfirmed by an independent source. No source names Caditz as an expert witness in the tree removal case; that description belongs to running mate Leonard Vanderstar's own account of himself. The Independent Parks Party's website has no individual candidate page. Its 33 numbered platform positions do not name Caditz or any other candidate, so they are recorded as party text. The City of Vancouver's candidate page refuses automated requests; on October 3, 2026 it was read from an Internet Archive copy of September 30, 2026. No source was found showing whether Caditz spoke at the Mount Pleasant all candidates meeting on September 23, 2026, so that listing was removed from the calendar. Caditz holds no public office, so no Park Board minutes apply to him. Three other individuals are named as applicants alongside Caditz in the court case, including a family member; none are candidates, and none are named in this record.
Evidence reviewed on September 22, September 26 and October 3, 2026: the Elections BC register of elector organizations, a Supreme Court of Canada case record, news reporting on the Stanley Park tree removal court case, Caditz's own campaign video and Instagram account, and answers he gave under his own name to VoteMate, the Vancouver Public Space Network and Vote4Tomorrow.
Checks still to do: confirm the philosophy and master's degrees, the career background and the Car Free Stanley Park Society role that Caditz states about himself. No independent source for these details was found.
The ballot name, office, ballot number and party label come from the City's final candidate list. Everything described as campaign material is the campaign's own account and has not been confirmed by an independent source, except where a court record is named.
The society brought a court application in 2024 seeking to stop the Stanley Park tree removal project and filed a judicial review in 2025. Reporting names Caditz as one of the people bringing the applications and as a lead member of the society. The Supreme Court of British Columbia substantially dismissed the judicial review on December 17, 2025. The Supreme Court of Canada's case file names Caditz as an applicant and shows it dismissed the applicants' request for leave to appeal, with costs, on June 25, 2026. The founding director title comes from an article Caditz wrote.
Court bid to halt Stanley Park logging fails, but judge criticizes city hall, park boardLeads a party registered in 2026 that runs five Park Board candidates and no city council candidates.
Vancouver's 2026 civic election candidate list is set: all 130 names in ballot orderCaditz lists this role in his answers to the Vote4Tomorrow voter guide. voche.me has not confirmed it with the society.
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The 2026 Vancouver municipal election, including the Park Board race, was decided on October 17, 2026.
Added his answers to the Vancouver Public Space Network survey and the Vote4Tomorrow guide, the party answers The West End Journal printed under his name, an Instagram post, the Elections BC register entry, and news reports from 2024 and 2025 that quote him. Corrected the injunction ruling date from October 5, 2024, the date of the news report, to October 1, 2024, the date of the written decision, and replaced an outcome line that still said no ruling on the judicial review had been found. Replaced a biography paragraph that repeated the one before it. Removed the cost point from the outsourcing promise, because the $750,000 and $2 million figures describe an approval limit and say nothing about what the repeal would cost. Removed the September 23, 2026 Mount Pleasant meeting from the calendar, because no source shows whether he took part.
Read the updateThe single promise on this record was sourced only to a LinkedIn profile that returns HTTP 999 to automated requests and could not be read, and it was not a real commitment in Caditz's own words. It has been removed. In its place, this update adds 21 commitments drawn from a platform Caditz submitted under his own name to VoteMate and from his campaign video, and adds the Supreme Court of Canada's public case file on the Stanley Park judicial review, which had not been found as of September 22, 2026.
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